Scarface Reviews

You cockaroach!

Fantastic. This film is by far one of the best movies I have ever seen. The story is a remake of a classic gangster movie, this time round though it is set on the sun washed beaches of Miami.

Young Antonio Montana has been set free from a Cuban jail and sent to Miami on a boat (this film is based on the Cuban 'Boat Lift', in which Fiedel Castro sent the dregs of his jails over to the US unaware to US officials.

He soon begins working for a drug kingpin and gets very ambitious!

watchable

A decent enough film although it gets a bit tiresome halfway through.The character played by Michelle Phieffer is absolutely awful(rather like my spelling of her name)and i can't believe she landed more film roles after this.Al Pacino was as good as ever and held this movie together.Although it kept me watching,i wouldn't call this movie a classic.

Classic

One of the best ganster films around,up there with the Godfather series,Casino and Goodfellas.Pacino puts in the performance of his life as ruthless Cuban immigrant Tony Montana out to rule the world.If you havent seen this already-get it now!

A Classic & Great Gangster Film

Al Pacino at his best in this story of a nobody from Cuba who worked his way up building himself an empire only to have it fall part in his hands as he got greedy, seeking to control all

Watching this film you can see that it has influenced alot of films and games and has earned a place as one of the best films ever made.

If you haven't seen it, watch it.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Average Gangster movie

Had to rent this purely because it's a film you always hear about and its part of movie history.

Was rather disappointed though as the acting was on the whole quite poor and it does really drag for almost 3 hours.

Al Pacino is great though in this role. I guess at the time this was a great movie. Just seems rather dated now.

A cure for narcolepsy

I have read aome of the negative reviews of this fil, and wonder whether these people know what a good film is!

This is pure genius! Made in 1980 and still stands strong today. Pacino is fantastic as the rags to riches gangster who never loses his working class background. I mean he eats the lemon in the finger bowl when he meets Sosa.

Brian De Palma, by not trying to remake the orignal, and updating it to the political state of central America of the early 80s is brilliant. This film should have received an oscar, but it is rare an oscar ever goes to a decent film.

Do not miss this classic gangster fim!

[Highly rated reviewer]

Borrring

it sucked was Boring went on for far to long so abit dragged out ,

WASTE of my time, i wud rather watch tots tv XD

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Good performance by Al Pachino

As always . Although really bad movie. I have given it one star because of Al Pachino and the fact that it is 25 years old. I don't know that untill reading the above reviews. After seeing the first seen in the bathroom and the saw, the blood was so fake and I just new it was going to be crap. And it was. Could have spent them 2 and half hours on something better

A Film That Spawned A Genre......

This is the original story of a Cuban refugee who embraces every part of the 'American Dream' even though it costs him his family, his friends and eventually his own life.

A fantastic film with a fine performance by Pacino as he makes the ruthless character almost loveable. Somewhat rough around the edges production-wise, but well worth a few watches.

Bonus disc - pah!

Why you would want to send me the bonus disc alone is beyond me. There was nothing new on it in and it was a waste of my time opening it and posting it back. If you're going to do bonus discs send them with the original disc.